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Insert the Switch CD in your Mac. |
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When the Switch CD shows up on the desktop, open it by double clicking it. |
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Open the “Office Documents” folder on the Switch CD by double clicking it. |
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Select all of your Office files and folders by choosing Select All from the Edit menu. |
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Copy the files on the Switch CD by choosing the Copy from the Edit menu. |
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Navigate to your “Home” folder on your hard drive by choosing Home from the Go menu. |
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Open the “Documents” folder on your hard drive by double-clicking it. |
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Transfer the files and folders by choosing Paste from the Edit menu. |
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You should see a progress bar showing the name of each file as it is transferred. |
That’s it.
Provided you have installed Microsoft Office on your Mac, you can double-click a Word, Excel or Powerpoint document and it will open, looking just as it did on your PC.
Incidentally, your new Mac might have come with an application called AppleWorks, an integrated suite of applications including a word processor, spreadsheet, drawing and painting modules, a presentation package and database. AppleWorks also can read Microsoft Word and Excel documents. |
A folder named “Documents” on your hard drive is the perfect place to move your productivity files such as Microsoft Office documents. It’s where applications save new documents by default and the default starting point for opening files. These instructions will step you through copying files from the “Office Documents” folder on your Switch CD to the “Documents” folder on your Mac hard drive.
